Would it be possible to run this straight from the CD and simply save system settings in an sfs file?

If you mean ".2fs", then yes. That's how I've been running it, along with the squashfiles (mygame, etc.) copied to the HD so that I can remove the CD._________________Be brave that God may help thee, speak the truth even if it leads to death, and safeguard the helpless. - A knight's oath

I have downloaded the iso file and i burned it to cd
then when i tried to boot it said boot failed press a key to try again
i wasted 3 blank cds so far
What is the problem?
I use nero burner and all other iso files work except this one

That helps plenty. You have Puppy 4.0 Dingo. Use the burniso2cd program on it under multimedia to burn a copy of Hurt Me Plenty and it should work perfectly. As I have stated before, that is what I use. I even used it to burn my PCLinuxOS and OS2 Warp discs.

yea but i just noticed that the file size is 708mb and my cd is 700mb
i also dont have a dvd burner to burn to dvd

Actually it is 708,112 kilobytes. There are 1024 kilobytes in a megabyte (computers work with powers of 2, not 10). 708,112/1024=~692 megabytes. Therefore it will fit on your CD.

Nero is a very powerful program, but it is often more complicated than is necessary for simple tasks. In this case, it is likely that it did not make the disc bootable. The image is bootable by default, but Nero can (and often does) override that if you don't have the burn settings just right.

As KF6SNJ said, the easiest thing is to boot Puppy 4.00 and use Burniso2cd.

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I was wanting to get this working but I haven't yet. I read somewhere that it's based on an alpha release, so does that mean it's not idiot proof yet. If not, then there probably no hope for me yet.

I downloaded the iso, md5sum checked ok. Burned the iso, booted it, saved the file, then booted it up again like the intro said. I chose xvesa, tried to click on one of the doom quake games only to find that the keyboard is not accurate. I chose the USA version during setup. Also even clicking on doom 1 and any of the quakes that I don't have to type anything, it never loads any of the games.

These are the glitches I've run into. Don't know if you've heard any of this before or if you're still developing the release. Just thought I'd mention it.

By the way, the distro "looks" killer! Very sleek. I'm looking forward to this distro as I do enjoy those games you've built around.

you must choose xorg, not xvesa.
xvesa has no hardware accelleration, required by the games.
xvesa is just a fallback, if xorg does not work. But you miss some features then, like 3D.
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to play the full versions, you must replace the shareware gamefiles with the full versions.
To avoid to waste space in your msy_save.2fs, you should delete them, and then create symlinks to the existing ones somewhere on your drives.

to play the full versions, you must replace the shareware gamefiles with the full versions.
To avoid to waste space in your msy_save.2fs, you should delete them, and then create symlinks to the existing ones somewhere on your drives.

a symlink is a reference to a file, that is physically stored somewhere else.

For example:
your savefile has just 50 Mb of free space left.
But pak0.pak is 170 MB.
So you cannot copy it in your savefile.
But you have it located already on your Windows C-drive, because you played Quake2 in Windows before.
Now by creating the symlink, then Puppys Quake will use the pak0.pak on your Windows-drive.